The campus is abuzz with construction activity and our classrooms are eagerly joining the excitement with lessons at all levels. In our Adolescent Community, the students are beginning a unit on engineering and design to coincide with the construction. Continuing on their studies of fundamental human needs, students are exploring how humans meet the need for shelter and transportation through engineering. Students began by learning how forces interact to support a structure and how energy can be transformed to power a model car.
They are also taking this as an opportunity to reenvision the land for microeconomy projects. Later in the unit, they will be building a grow light stand to nurture seedlings in the classroom and a greenhouse to shelter them outside once they get a bit stronger. The seedlings will be available to purchase later this spring as part of our microeconomy work!
